Day of Adventure, Part 2

Just a few feet from the sign announcing the Edison Birthplace as a national registered building (see previous post for pic) there was a sign about the Milan Canal Basin. Now from almost the moment we had entered Milan we learned that when the Huron Canal was built in the 1840, little Milan, landlocked Milan, quickly became one of the largest grain ports in the world, second only to Odessa Russia. Of course there was a sign right behind the one pictured here that forbid up from even seeing the Canal Basin, as it is not open to visitors.

A quick few blocks from the Basin and the Edison birthplace was the Milan Historical Museum, a collection of buildings ranging from an old blacksmith ship to the Edna Roe Newton Memorial Building built in 1969 in the memory of the wife of one of the founding members of the Milan Historical Society. Here are some pictures of a 4 seasons garden and a plaque for Milan's Japanese sister city.

Perhaps the most exciting discovery of the day was the Hoover Potato Digger.

I will do the next entry on this miraculous invention.

After we had toured the Newton building, the lady who was hostess took us to one of the other buildings and after Jim and I quickly walked through (by this time we had been Milaned out) we tried to escape to our car but the hostess of the Newton Building was standing out front of it and tried, unsuccessfully, to get us back into the building we had missed. We politely said we were hungry and quickly got back into my car and headed out to Marblehead.